Azucar Ice Cream Company, LLC, located in the heart of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, was founded in July 2011 as an artisanal ice cream and sorbet boutique. Inspired by South Florida's diverse cultures, our hot subtropical climate and a passion for sabor latino, we create our ice cream confections just like abuela used to make, using the highest quality ingredients and a desire to bring smiles to friends faces.Azucar's ice cream and sorbet flavors use high quality, all natural ingredients. We buy our ruby red mamey down the street at the Los Piñarenos fruit stand and our sweet platano maduros are hand-prepared at El Nuevo Siglo Grocery Store. Whenever possible, we use locally grown, seasonal fruits and vegetables from South Florida farmer's markets and Redland, Florida growers.

Abuela (grandmother) was a very colorful person with great determination. She was born and raised in Cuba and married my abuelo (grandfather) who was a sugarmill engineer. Here is where her adventure with ice cream began. She lived throughout Central and South America, always on the move due to our abuelo's job. She was determined to make ice cream out of every tropical fruit that she found along their travels.

Our grandmother was a treasure to be with. Her passion was ice cream! As children we would enjoy all of her ice cream creations: sunset-colored mamey, creamy avocado with condensed milk, sweet pink guava and sorbets made only with the juiciest mangos.

My grandmother's love for varieties of tropical flavors and ice cream seems to have been tatooed on my soul! We can make almost anything into ice cream thanks to our training at Penn State's Ice Cream University and the Frozen Dessert Institute of St. Louis.

The concept for our ice cream store came out of the love for my abuela and an admiration for Miami's Little Havana neighborhood and what it represents. There is always a buzz in the air in our new neighborhood. I feel that we've gone back to our roots. A place that I never realized was always there waiting for us. We are where we belong and are so excited to have been blessed to be able to pursue our abuela's passion.